I am delighted to announce the publication of Paul Halter’s brand new novel, with a worldwide exclusive in celebration of LRI’s 10th anniversary year. Here’s Publishers Weekly’s starred review:
‘Set in 1924, Halter’s exceptionally clever fifth Owen Burns mystery to be translated into English (after 2019’s The Gold Watch) finds Burns investigating a series of bizarre events in the English village of Buckworth, which has been haunted for centuries by a specter known as the White Lady, whose appearances have always been bad omens. A number of members of the wealthy Richards family, including its elderly patriarch, Sir Matthew, have seen the White Lady, who managed to disappear from a room whose one exit was under observation and pass through a solid fence. The matter turns more serious after Lethia Seagrave, the local soothsayer and possibly Sir Matthew’s lover, predicts that the next appearance will result in actual harm, a prophecy that’s borne out when someone dies after being touched on the forehead by a figure who looks like an attractive woman dressed all in white. Further visions of the White Lady ratchet up the tension. Halter once again makes crafting logical solutions to multiple impossibilities look easy.’
Enjoy!